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''Celebrity Skin'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on September 8, 1998 on Geffen Records and one day later in the United States on DGC Records. Hole intended the record to diverge significantly from their previous noise and grunge-influenced sound as featured on ''Pretty on the Inside'' (1991) and ''Live Through This'' (1994). The band hired producer Michael Beinhorn to record ''Celebrity Skin'' over a nine-month period that included the band recording in California, New York and the United Kingdom. The album was the band's first studio release to feature bassist Melissa Auf der Maur following the death of former bassist Kristen Pfaff in June 1994. Unlike the material on the band's previous albums, the songs on ''Celebrity Skin'' were composed by a number of musicians instead of solely frontwoman Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan contributed largely to the album's writing process and others, including Auf der Maur's former bandmate Jordon Zadorozny, contributed to its composition. Love named the album and its title track after a poem she had written, which was heavily influenced by T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland".〔Love, Courtney. Interview with Jackie Farry. "Superock", 1995. MTV.〕 Though credited, drummer Patty Schemel did not actually play drums on this album, and was replaced with session drummer Deen Castronovo at the suggestion of producer Beinhorn. This issue created a rift between Schemel and the band, resulting in her dropping out of the tour and parting ways with the group. ''Celebrity Skin'' was the original band's last album before their disbandment in 2002. ''Celebrity Skin'' was Hole's most commercially successful album. To date, it has sold over 1,400,000 copies in the United States alone, has been certified as platinum in Australia, Canada and the United States and garnered Hole a number one hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track, "Celebrity Skin". Critical reaction to the album was largely positive and the album was listed on a number of publications' year-end lists in 1998. ==Background== In September 1995, Hole completed the final leg of their year-long of tour in promotion for their second studio album, ''Live Through This'' (1994).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://holelive.com/1995.php )〕 Despite remaining unproductive in the months following the tour, the members of Hole began working on individual projects. Frontwoman Courtney Love was cast as Althea Flynt in the ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' alongside Woody Harrelson, lead guitarist Eric Erlandson collaborated with Rodney Bingenheimer and Thurston Moore in a short-lived project Rodney & the Tube Tops,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/55c24ef0-82ad-4bd4-8b97-739690d43612 )〕 bassist Melissa Auf der Maur recorded Ric Ocasek's album ''Troublizing'' (1997), and drummer Patty Schemel was a guest musician with The Lemonheads on the tribute album ''Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pattydoc.com/patty.html )〕 Following Love's promotion of ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'', the band reunited to write new material for ''Celebrity Skin''. According to Love, the embyronic versions of the songs "weren't very good" and "not written well."〔Love, Courtney. "We just had written songs, but they weren't very good. We kept on writing and writing, there were ones that were not written well." Extracts from a transcription of an interview on ''The House'' in Sydney, Australia in January 1999.〕 However, the songs developed following the band's relocation to several parts of the United States, including Nashville, Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans.〔Auf der Maur, Melissa. "We were trying different parts of America to write in like New Orleans and New York, where else? Nashville and Memphis. It really wasn't four years in the making." Extracts from a transcription of an interview on ''The House'' in Sydney, Australia in January 1999.〕 During their time in New Orleans, the band recorded a number of demos, including an early version of "Awful" and songs which later developed in to "Dying" and "Hit So Hard".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://holestudiochronology.eu.pn/november-1995.htm )〕 Despite reports, these sessions did not result in the recording of a complete album and the master tapes were not stolen on an airplane. Erlandson debunked these claims in 2002. The writing process was completed in under a year and the band went through "fruitless attempts" at finalizing the songs before the band were satisfied enough to enter the studio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celebrity Skin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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